Redundancy

Jackie Doyle-Price: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many staff in his Department were made redundant in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13; and how many such staff received payments in lieu of notice.

Hugh Robertson: In 2010-11, 131 staff left the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), at a cost of £15.3 million. 118 of these left under old exit schemes.
	In 2011-12, 89 staff left the FCO, at a cost of £5.3 million.
	In 2012-13, 55 staff left the FCO, at a cost of £4 million.